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2014/04/07
Forensic Magazine 04/04/2014: Cleveland to Pay $1.3M to Two Men Wrongfully Convicted of Murder
The city has agreed to pay $1.3 million to two men who were wrongfully convicted of killing a Slavic Village woman in 1997, for which they spent 13 years in prison.
Thomas Siller and Walter Zimmer filed a federal lawsuit last year against a disgraced crime laboratory worker with the Cleveland Police Department. The men accused forensic serologist Joseph Serowik of fabricating evidence that resulted in their convictions.
The lawsuit contended the city failed to properly train and supervise Serowik, and it accused the lab worker of violating the men’s due process rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Serowik was fired in 2004. Siller, now 58, and Zimmer, now 57, were released from prison in 2011. more